Re: This approach to non-ASCII names does not work

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: This approach to non-ASCII names does not work
Date: 2006-09-20 20:35:16
Message-ID: 20060920203516.GI5434@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Yes, I use them where possible. I use:
> > http://www.mountaindragon.com/html/iso.htm
>
> ... which says right on it that it considers only ISO 8859/1 and is not
> a complete list even of that set.
>
> I assume that somewhere there is a Web-related spec of the widely
> recognized entity names, but I see no reason to suppose that this list
> is it. Something at w3c, say, would have a tad more credibility.

Maybe this:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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